Chrome OS

Have you ever heard of Chrome OS or a Chrome Book? Well Chrome OS is a Linux based operating system that relies mainly on the Google Chrome Browser. Chrome OS is made by Google. Google is the manufacture of the Android operating system so they have some experience. A Chrome Book is a laptop that has Chrome OS pre-installed when purchased. They are fairly cheap and worth your money if you usually only work out of the Chrome Browser. Chrome OS is basically just the Chrome browser with different extensions(Apps) to run. There is a wide variety of apps(including most android apps) to download. There is a desktop and task bar but they are very minimal. The Operating system is specifically made to run on Chromebooks. To install an unofficial build of Chrome OS on a device you may either develop your own or head over to to hexxeh.net. There you can find different builds made for Virtual Box and VMware. You also can download a .img file for installing onto a physical device. All the files you download from the site will be in a .zip folder so you will need to extract the folder.

Windows Install

Download the latest build for usb and extract the .img file

Download Win Image Writer from here.

Insert Usb drive and open WIn Image Writer

Select your usb drive and the .img file.

Click write and wait to finish.

Exit Win Image Writer and shut down computer

Make sure Bios is set to boot from Usb and reboot computer. You should be able to install Chrome OS

Mac Install

Download the builder application from mac

Run Program

Boot from usb

You should start to install Chrome OS

Linux Instructions

Download the latest build for usb and extract the .img file

Run if=ChromeOS.img of=/dev/usb bs=4M(where usb is your USB stick and ChromeOS.img is the path of the .img file.) in terminal.

Reboot Computer from usb

You should start to install Chrome OS

Virtual Box(Custom Install)

Virtual Box(Pre-Installed)

Download the latest build for Virtual Box.

Extract the .vdi image.

Open Virtual Box

Click New than type a name and select other linux 32bit as the os.

Select at least 512mb ram.

Select Use existing virtual hard drive file and navigate to the file you extracted.

Click Create

Click on your new machine and select settings than system than processor and enable Pae if not already enabled.